Matthew Seed
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- Dec 16, 2018
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Hi guys. I am looking for a new very special guitar and maybe thinking of going for a private stock as i cant seem to find what I am looking for.
I am looking for a guitar with splittable humbuckers but where the single coil tones are really really great, strat esq tones. I suspect the first port of call will be not to go for a typical mahogany back. So i figured a swamp ash back and maple top and then maybe a maple neck with a rosewood board or even maple board too.
I thought that these wood choices would get me the right base for the right pickups to give me the best strat esq tones i could get from a split pickup.
So which guitar is the big question to base this project on. After a lot of research I keep coming back to one i have not yet played which is the 509. This guitar is separate single coils together more than a humbucker split. Can anyone help who has experienced this guitar if that makes a difference to how good the single coil tones are being done this way. And indeed how good a guitar it is in general.
Thank you for any help.
Matthew
I am looking for a guitar with splittable humbuckers but where the single coil tones are really really great, strat esq tones. I suspect the first port of call will be not to go for a typical mahogany back. So i figured a swamp ash back and maple top and then maybe a maple neck with a rosewood board or even maple board too.
I thought that these wood choices would get me the right base for the right pickups to give me the best strat esq tones i could get from a split pickup.
So which guitar is the big question to base this project on. After a lot of research I keep coming back to one i have not yet played which is the 509. This guitar is separate single coils together more than a humbucker split. Can anyone help who has experienced this guitar if that makes a difference to how good the single coil tones are being done this way. And indeed how good a guitar it is in general.
Thank you for any help.
Matthew